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A mega recap quiz of A2 English Language
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what is a childs text -temporally sequenced but events proceed smoothly without causality
narrative
recall
evaluate
recount
2
Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of several sentences/clauses in a row is called?
allusion
allegory
anaphora
antithesis
3
UNDERNEATH is an example of a...?
verb
determiner
noun
preposition
4
Which theorist gave us the idea that conversation is a form of cooperation?
Brown and Levinson
Grice
Lakoff
Tannen
5
In what year did this man make the first proper dictionary in English?
1801
1755
1762
1745
6
In what year was this published and who published it?
1755, Johnson
1762, Webster
1783, Johnson
1783, Webster
7
restricted lexical terms distinctive to a particular profession or occupation are called?
colloquialisms
jargon
slang
metaphor
8
In spoken language, language focused on achieving an outcome is called?
interactional language
transactional language
expressional language
referential language
9
The sentence I WANT TO FORGET WHAT YOU DID WHILST ALSO FORGIVING YOU is a?
Minor Sentence
Complex Sentence
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
10
'His rage was like a simmering pan on a stove' is an example of?
simile
pun
metaphor
neologism
11
taking a child's utterances and using them again in a novel expression to show how to use them?
redressing
model use
revisiting
recasting
12
A rhetorical technique where a person deliberately understates something for effect is called?
chiasmus
litotes
oxymoron
hyperbole
13
Two words which have the same sound but are written differently are called?
homophones
synonnyms
aptronymns
ideophones
14
Who gave us the theory that language must be learned by a certain age?
Chomsky
Lenneberg
Bruner
Skinner
15
Words such as articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs which are omitted by young children?
inflections
Function words
articles
Content words
16
The process whereby a word acquires a negative meaning over time is called?
Narrowing
Amelioration
Broadening
Pejoration
17
the first person plural object pronoun is?
your
we
us
!
18
The gender deficit model was proposed by?
Lakoff
Tannen
Brown
Butler
19
In Kroll, which stage is defined as: Writing closely reflects the patterns ofspoken language?
Integration
Consolidation
Preparatory
Differentiation
20
The idea that something is lacking in the language of a particular group is called?
the deficit model
reduced vocabulary
descriptivism
prescriptivism
21
language whose function is pointing and which requires contextual knowledge is called?
functional language
symbolic language
deictic language
phatic language
22
//ɪɡzamɪneɪʃən// is which word when spoken out loud?
interrogation
examination
ignomoiy
exaggeration
23
Morphemes that grammatically change words: plurals, possessives, comparatives, and verb tenses?
inflections
suffixes
infixes
prefixes
24
When you pose and answer a question for rhetorical effect it is called?
rhetorical question
pathos
hypophora
parallelism
25
a consonant where airflow is blocked, the velum is shut, producing a humming sound is called?
nasal
plosive
consonant
fricative
26
When words like 'please' are spelt 'pls' in mixed modal texts this is an example of?
Vowel deletion
Linguistic compression
Phatic speech
Variant spelling
27
What is a word that means the opposite of another word called? For example, "hot" and "cold."
anthony
collocation
antonym
cliche
28
in the Eighteenth century, elaborate words with foreign origins are best described as?
French-Latinate Lexis
Antonyms
Blended words
Loan words
29
In the EME period, people who mocked the use of elaborate French Latinate terms called them?
Mollyswats
Black words
Inkhorn terms
Cumbersnoods
30
What is a prestige form of English taught in schools called? It's dialect, NOT an accent.
Multicultural London English
Estuary English
Received Pronunciation
Standard English